"Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose." - Edward de Bono (1933 - ), Author and Inventor

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967

"Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust." - John F. Akers, IBM CEO from 1985 - 1993

"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change." - Jane Goodall (1934 - ), English Anthropologist

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington (1732 - 1799), 1st President of the United States of America

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), American Clergyman and Activist

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." - Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968), American Socialist

"Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. " - Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990), American Historian and Writer

"The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated." - Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), 40th President of the United States

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Irish-born British Novelist and Lay Theologian

"The test of progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), 32nd President of the United States

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist and Nobel Laureate

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist and Nobel Laureate

"For of those to whom much is given, much is required." - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 35th President of the United States

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), 16th President of the United States

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist and Nobel Laureate

"I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best." - Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993), American Author

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." - Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), German-French Philosopher and 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly." - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), 3rd President of the United States